North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. JonesWilliam L. Andrews The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international--indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are all from North Carolina slaves and are among the most memorable and influential slave narratives published in the nineteenth century. The writings of Moses Roper (1838), Lunsford Lane (1842), Moses Grandy (1843), and the Reverend Thomas H. Jones (1854) provide a moving testament to the struggles of enslaved people to affirm their human dignity and ultimately seize their liberty. Introductions to each narrative provide biographical and historical information as well as explanatory notes. Andrews's general introduction to the collection reveals that these narratives not only helped energize the abolitionist movement but also laid the groundwork for an African American literary tradition that inspired such novelists as Toni Morrison and Charles Johnson. |
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... bondage. The most popular and lasting African American literary contributions to the abolition movement were the autobiographical narratives of fugitive slaves. Before the closeoftheeighteenthcentury,thelifestoriesofAfrican-bornslaves ...
... bondage. The most popular and lasting African American literary contributions to the abolition movement were the autobiographical narratives of fugitive slaves. Before the closeoftheeighteenthcentury,thelifestoriesofAfrican-bornslaves ...
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... bondage. After gaining his freedom, Grandy moved north, but unlike Lane and indeed most slave narrators of his era, Grandy refused to rhapsodize over life in the so-called Free States. ''When I first went to the Northern States, which ...
... bondage. After gaining his freedom, Grandy moved north, but unlike Lane and indeed most slave narrators of his era, Grandy refused to rhapsodize over life in the so-called Free States. ''When I first went to the Northern States, which ...
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... bondage. One can find little evidence in the narratives of those who endured slavery that the degree of cruelty exacted by the system materially affected their desire for freedom or, having achieved that, their 14} william l. andrews.
... bondage. One can find little evidence in the narratives of those who endured slavery that the degree of cruelty exacted by the system materially affected their desire for freedom or, having achieved that, their 14} william l. andrews.
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... Bondage(1883), and William Henry Singleton's Recollections of My Slavery Days (1922), however, postbellum North Carolina slave narratives still await scholarly attention and a twenty-first-century readership.18 The oral histories of ...
... Bondage(1883), and William Henry Singleton's Recollections of My Slavery Days (1922), however, postbellum North Carolina slave narratives still await scholarly attention and a twenty-first-century readership.18 The oral histories of ...
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... Bondage: The Autobiography of Friday Jones was rediscovered and reprinted in 1999 in a facsimile edition, with an introduction by William L. Andrews, by the J. Y. Joyner Library of East Carolina University. Singleton's Recollections of ...
... Bondage: The Autobiography of Friday Jones was rediscovered and reprinted in 1999 in a facsimile edition, with an introduction by William L. Andrews, by the J. Y. Joyner Library of East Carolina University. Singleton's Recollections of ...
Contents
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A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of MOSES ROPER Introduction | 23 |
Narrative | 35 |
The Narrative of LUNSFORD LANE Introduction | 79 |
Narrative | 93 |
Narrative of the Life of MOSES GRANDY Introduction | 133 |
Narrative | 153 |
The Experience of REV THOMAS H JONES Introduction | 189 |
Narrative | 203 |
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